Trade-offs relating to grassland and forest mine reclamation approaches in the central Appalachian region and implications for the songbird community

Surface mining in the Appalachian region (USA) converts large areas of mature forest to early successional habitat. This shift in landscape structure has the potential to reduce habitat availability and suitability for forest-dwelling songbirds by reducing and fragmenting mature forest, but also to...

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Main Authors: Eric L. Margenau, Petra B. Wood, Cathy A. Weakland, Donald J. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2019-06-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol14/iss1/art2/